The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that Premier Barry O’Farrell has announced tough new measures aimed at reducing alcohol violence in Sydney’s CBD.
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Shaun Pattinson, former owner and bartender of influential and award-winning Adelaide bar, Cushdy, is getting back behind the stick just in time for Adelaide’s Fringe festival. when he opens a popup bar called Roses & Rye.
The board of Japanese company Suntory has agreed to buy Beam Inc, in a deal reportedly worth some US$16 billion. Reuters is reporting that Suntory, which owns Yamazaki, Bowmore and Midori among a host of other brands, made the decision yesterday after just two months of negotiations with Beam Inc.
There’s a new bar coming to Sydney’s CBD, in the basement level of the old Globe site.
The iPad edition of our January issue is now live in the App Store.
Sad news came out of London over Christmas, with the death of Martin Miller, co-founder of Martin Millers Gin.
He died of cancer on Christmas Eve, at the age of 67.
Melbourne bar, Los Barbudos, has teamed up with Bacardi to host the first Bat-Ball League tournament, in which plenty of booze, baseball and BBQ will take place (along with a bunch of smack talk, we assume).
Not many brands can claim to have faced the adversities Bacardi has: they’ve seen fires, earthquakes, Prohibition and exile, just to name a few. And their new “Bacardi Untameable since 1862” campaign — which kicks off with the commercial shown below — is designed to capture those elements of the company’s family history.
From bar closures to a raft of new openings, award winners and the spirit of the summer (we reckon it could be mezcal): here are the biggest news stories of 2013 — as read by you!
A good looking bottle for Absolut Originality, news from the ranks of Shady Pines, The Baxter Inn and Frankie’s Pizza, bikie laws in Queensland and penalty rate cuts rejected.
If it weren’t for booze, we’re pretty sure there’d be no rock and roll. Without it we’d have been doomed to an endless loop of Hanson or, worse yet, Nickelback. Thankfully there is booze and bars and rock and roll is all the better for it, and there’s few people who have seen it as close up as snapper Ross Halfin.
The iPad edition of our December issue is now live in the App Store. In this month’s issue:
Read this before you open a bar – Phil Bayly talks about the pitfalls you need to avoid to set up a successful bar…